Camanchaca

by Megan McDowell, Diego Zúñiga, Aamna Qureshi

Book Overview

A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family--a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained death--occupies the heart of this novel. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing in from the sea, its moisture sustaining a near-barren landscape. Camanchaca is the discretion that makes a lifelong grief possible. Sometimes, the silences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566894603
• ISBN13: 9781566894609
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.6"